When Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Meet the Press that aired on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked him, “When you go to bed at night, do you worry about going to jail?” Trump responded: “No, I don’t really. I don’t even think about it. I’m built a little differently…I don’t even think about it.” But according to a new report, the four-times indicted ex-president has very much thought about the prospect of going to prison, and in fact, has some very specific concerns about doing time.
Rolling Stone reports that over the past several months, Trump has taken to asking members of his inner circle if they think he’ll be forced to wear “one of those jumpsuits” behind bars. (Whether he is worried about having to trade his business attire and golf duds for classic prison garb in general, or if it is the idea of an orange jumpsuit in particular, which would likely clash with his complexion and give rise to untold late-night jokes, that has him uneasy, is unclear.) In addition, according to the outlet, the ex-president has wondered aloud if:
– He’ll be sentenced to do time in a “club fed”-style prison, i.e., a relatively cushy place white-collar criminals have historically been sent to, or if he’ll be sent to a “bad” prison
– If there is a chance he’d get lucky and only get house arrest
– If the government would try to strip him of Secret Service protection
– What would happen “if he were convicted and sentenced, but also reelected”?
Meanwhile, as 2024 rival Will Hurd noted in August, Trump’s decision to run again is very likely based in part on the calculation that getting reelected would be his get-out-of-jail-free card. “He’s only running in order to stay out of prison,” Hurd told Bloomberg Radio. (Meanwhile, in 2022, before he’d officially announced his candidacy, a source familiar with Trump’s thinking told Rolling Stone that the ex-president had “spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you.’” This person added that Trump “says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges—or even put him and his people in prison.”)
Trump is currently facing a whopping 91 felony counts across four criminal cases. In June, after he was charged by the Justice Department for his handling of classified documents, Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley opined, “All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and [Trump] could have a terminal sentence. You’re talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum.”
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